The Wabash Courier, Volume 23, Number 45, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 30 June 1855 — Page 2

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Saturday Morning, June 30,1855.

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Fourth of July.

Wednesday next will be ihe anniversary of American Independence. The annual return of the day on which these United States were declared free and independent And to that independencej the representatives of the United States, with a firm reliance on the protection of DIVINE PROVIDENCE mutualy pledged their LIVES their roRTUNES and their SA CRED HONOR. That independence- has been kept, observed, and adhered to. Ii has grown with its growth, and strengthened with its strength. It is among the fixed facts long since recognized as moral and physical principle on the face of the earth. Founded upon this Dec* laration ot Independence from old monarchal forms of government, came and arose tho experiment of Republican principles. There has been a fair trial and the principle fully established.

We are pleased to observed that arrangements are being made for a handsome celebration of the day in this place. A committee of arrangements is at work. Hon R. W. THOMPSON has been selected ns Orator, and E. 13. ALLEN as Reader of the Declaration of Independence.— There will be music, and Marshals, and Chaplains, and all things fully arranged for a first rate celebration.

American Platform.

The Know-Nothing Council of this place have hod under discussion the question of platforms as emanating from the National Council lately sitting in Philadelphia. There appears to be a difference of opinion whether the platform and principles as finally decided upon by the mojority of the National Convention—or the address of the delegates from Indiana, who constitute a portion of the minorty, shall be of the more binding force upon the American order in this State. Animated discussions havo been had and the question (till remains undecided.

COST OF THE LAST CUBAN FIZZLE,— Senor Goicouria, late treasurer of the Cuban Junta publishes a pronunciamento in the Now York Papers. It appears that the amount of monby contributed bytheCreolos to set the Revolution in motion was ©370,000, not half a million of dollars, as was stated at the time. Of this amount, the treasurer, Senor Goicouria, expended $100,000 besides 840,000 of his own funds in tho causo.— Tho balance of tho 8370,000, or $270,000, was handed over to the control of General Quitman and tho South branch of the Junta by the direction of the contributors to the fund. Out of this amount it is said that Quitman spent §150,000 in conditional contracts with Captain Graham for steamships and tho naval portion of the expedition the money was paid in advance, and of course when the scheme fell through, it was set down as so much thrown away. Moreover, some $20 000 were paid to officers of the United States army, to induce them to join the expedition.

GREELY IN PRISON.—Horace Greely now on a visit to Paris, was lately arrested and imprisoned in that place* at the suit of a Sculptor, on account of some Statuary furnished to the Crystal Palace of which Mr. Greely is said to be a Di rector. The suit however was discharg ed, after Mr. Greely had remained In prison over Sunday. The N. Y. Tribune contains a fivo column letter from tho pen of Mr. Greely giving funny account of his imprisonment.

VINCSNNRS DAILY.—Wo havo re reived the first and second numbers of Uie DAILY IMOBNISG GAZETTE, published

Vincennes. The paper is well got up and contains excellent Editorials and well selected reading matter. We know the Editors to be entirely competent to a

first rate Weekly. And we will ven tit re that if there is any thing in tho place or times, to justify, they will make tell and pay in a Daily.

INcw Line to Chicago.

By reference to Advertisement it will be seen that on Tuesday next, will com mence a line for Chicago, starting on the Alton Railroad and running through to ChicagOt by 6 o'clock in the evening The cars will meet at the crosting of the Chicago branch at 10 o'clock A. M.

CARRIAGE MANUFACTORY.—We ask attentiun to the Advertisement of MA CAULEY, WELCH & Co., in another col umn. They have opened a shop opposite Mr. Crawford's on Second street, and have on hand some fiae J^miagw and Buggies.

vi ^5,The Next Congress. The Journal of Commerce has prepared complete tables of the next Senate and House of Representatives, so far as the elections in the States havo been campleted, with the object of showing how hopeless would be the attempt to obtain the repeal of the Nebraska bill. The Senate, when full, comprises 62 members, of whom f8 have been elected. Of these 58 there are 36 Democeats, 19 Whigs and 3 Aboliiionists.— Of the complexion of the. Senate tha Journal says:—

Of the 58 Senators elected. 26 voted for the Nebraska B.IK To which add Bayard of Delasvare, Yulee of Florida, fverson of Georgia, Bright of Indiana, Crittenden of Kentucky, Adams of Miss^ issippi. Geyer of Missouri, Biggs and Reid of North Carolina, Pugh of Ohio, and Evans of South Carolina, (11») of whom oro know to be favorable to the Nebraska measure, and wo have a total of 37 already elected, who are in favor of it. Then add Clayton of Daleware, who, though he voted against the bill, has since declared himself opposed to its repeal and we have 38 Nebraskanes already elected. Of the foui vacancies one in Alabama, and one in Missouri, will almost to a certainty be filled with Nebraska men, making, a total of 40, without including any chance which there may be for Nebraska men in the remoiningtwo vacancies, oneinlndiona and one in Pennsylvania. In round numbers, it may be said that two-thirds of tho new Senate will be in favor of the

Nebraska measure, and a still larger number against its repeal. Among the latter, we presume, may be included Bell of Tennessee, and Houston of Tex

So far as the elections are completed the House ofRepresntatives is composed of 70 Administration Democrats and 104 Opposition. Sixty members are yet to be elected from districts represented in the last Congress by 20 Whigs and

40 Democrats. The recapitulation is thus:— In the States that have thus far chosen there have been re-elected, who voted for the bill,. ........ 28 The nine States which have not yet voted, all being slave-holding

States, gave for ihe bill, Absentees from said nine States, when the vote was taken, New members thus far elected, who are understood to be in favor of the bill, or at least to its re

Balloon Ascension.

MR. ELLIOTT made an ascension from St. Louis on Friday last. From some cause the balloon did not get well inflated, and as night

was approaching Mr. ELLIOTT removed his little wicket [sic] basket, and tied the little cords together for a seat. On this, says the <Republican>, without any guards around or about him, he gave the order, 'let her go,' and in

two

two minutes the Isabella and the voyager were in the upper air. It was a perilous exploit. The spectators gazed in silence, and numbers apprehended a fatal catastrophe.— A fair breeze wafted the baloon [sic] with great velocity in a direction a little west of south. The dangling legs of the aeronaut were soon lost sight of, then entire body, and finally, when the highest elevation was attained, the whole fabric resembled in shape and dimensions a common sized hat. After being up some fifteen or twenty minutes, the balloon began to descend. We presume the landing was effected some three or four miles out, perhaps more. The country in that direction is clear, and favorable for a descent and unless Mr. ELLIOTT has been taken for a bird by some sportsman, or for 'Sam' by a 'furriner,' he will be in good condition to- day to be congratulated by his friends. ~~~~~~~

Venus, one of the brightest of the planets, is now visible with the naked eye in the daytime, and for two or three months to come it will be increasing in brilliancy, and may be seen every afternoon east of and about 45 deg. from the sun. A gentleman writing to an Eastern paper says: 'Its occulation by the moon, on the 18th of April last, was a phenomonon which few astronomers see more than once in a life-time.' ~~~~~~~

A PHENOMENON.—The slavery part of the Know Nothing platform is styled that of the National Council, but the National Intelligencer, in publishing the list of yeas and nays on the question calls attention to the fact that the yeas represented fifieen States, with 1-16 elec toral votes, while the nays represented sixteen States, with 150 electoral votes

DEATH OF MR. HOMES.—We learn that news has reached town of the death of Mr. John Hodges, who it is said was drowned in Yuba River. Mr. Hodges left for California last winter. He was several years a member of the Legist** ture from Vigo—and will be remembered as a respectable and worthy citizen of our county.

Ojr neighbor McLean, of the Jourhal appears to be very much exorcised about what he calls the God-forsaken organi

zation of Vigo.

The mora* man is envied, U»« leas be •pated,

From our Now York Correspond"**

Total, 100

Eighteen more votes would make a mnjorityof the House. It is not impossible, nor very improbable, that this number will le found, (among the 134 members not included in the aoove caU culation,) who will oppose Repeal, although son of them voted against the Bill on passage. In other words, it is by no means certain that a bill to repeal the Nebraska law can pass the House. But if it should, it will be defeated by a large mojority in the Senate. And beforo a new Congress is elected, Nebras^ kn will probably be knocking foradmis sion into the Union as a State.

NEW YORK Juno 26.

Tho late news from Europe has made every "Hingliahman" in town unbearably insolent. If the English papers brought out by tho Asia contain the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, concerning matters and affairs in the Crimea, the Allies have certainly gained some advantages i)ut it is simply ridiculous to base any opinion on the general result of the war upon tho course affairs may take for a few months or even for a year, I am strong in the belief that England will come out of this contest a third rate power. Indiidual organizations have their birth, infancy, youth, maturity, decline, senility, and death. So have races of animals, ncluding races of men. Nations, planets, and solar systems, must also decay and die—that is, the material part of them. The English nation has had its day. It has run its race. It has accomplished its destiny—and a wonderful destiny it has been. Turn to your atlas, look at the Map of the World," tho Map of Europe," and run your finger over either of them, until it comes to a little insignificant island that you could drown in Lake Superior, without discommoding the dwellers on its shores by an overflow and then turn to the

West Indies, the East Indies, Africa, North America, and Australia ponder on the superiority of the race that has been able to subjugate or colonize such a vast extent of territory in every quar tor of the globe, and, frankly, throwing aside, for the time, any feeling of ani mosity that you justly or unjustly entertain toward the Government and people of Great Britain, see if it be possible for as an honest, unprejudiced man

you, not to acknowledge that that same people and Government have worked glori

ously and successfully foMhe advance ment of humanity. I think I appreciate, to their fullest ex tent, the enormities that have been arid are now being perpetrated by the British Government. Few men have a more clear idea than myself of the short-com-ings of that Government. But I am speaking comparatively. When our own country gained its independence, did our fathers go to France, or Spain, or Russia, for the basis of our laws and institutions'? Do we go to any of those countries now? No 1 Our fathers paid the highest possible compliment to the country that hud just been tyranizuig over them, by making its institutions and laws the model of their own and to this day, the most violent anti-British political demagogue, if a lasvyer, and pleading a cause, refers the Court and

Jury to the practice of the Courts in England, thus tacitly paying a high compliment to the institutions of that

country. We can now afford to be magnanimous. England can never be, if she would, our opponent in the field. She has too much sagacity to make the attempt. She could never oppose us for more than one year, even on the sea.— She has passed her meridian, and os she sinks down into old age, let us treat her with respect—even humor her whims, when it does not cost too much, os the generous boy of twenty-one humors those of his irascible sire, or fussy old mother. Let us remember that she has brought up a respectable family. Neither ancient Rome nor Greece left children educated up to the ability to take care of themselves. Look again, in later times, to Venice, Portugal,*Spain, and Holland, each of which was only a few hundred years ago a first rate power, but is now the foot-ball of nations.—

Not one of these, when old age overtook it, could point to its children which it had so educated that they could not fail, in their turn, to become one of the great powers of tho* earth. Where are the colonies of those countries Why, their very languages are being swallowed up! Look at Brazil, the children of Portugal and Mexico, Cuba, and Central America the children of Spain. Look on the other hand, to the United States, Canada, and Australia, the stout healthy chil dren of England, speaking one language approximating each other every year more closely in the freedom of their institutions, and see if old John Bull has not, after all, so trained his boys, that they bid fair to spread their institutions, and their language, ultimately over the entire globe/,

The new ship King Lear jusTbuilt at Boston by Sec^pmb & Taylor, has been sold to a London house for about 90,000. The King Lear is about 1,800 tons burthen, and will be employed in the^rimea/ Two new ships, one the Emerald, now on the stocks at Boston, and the other, the Sea Lark, now on the stocks at Bath, Me..have been purchased by the agents of the Dramatic Line New York and Liverpool packets, at about $140,000 for the two.

Mayor Wood received a communica* tion yesterday from Mr. T. G. Flugel, United States Consul, at Dresden, covering an official assurance from the Saxon Government, that no emigration of pau pers or criminals to America, had taken place from that kingdom, and care would be uken, moreover, that none should.

It is stated that out of about 300 emirants per ship Defenaor, at Para, from orto, 47 died on the passage of hanger «nd ill-usage.''

Tragedy at Greencastle.

The sad affair which resulted in the death of Dr. Geo. W. Stockton of Green-

castle, is thus related by the <Banner> of that place, of June 27th: "It becomes our painful duty to record another butchering scrape in Greencastle. On Saturday morning last, Dr.

G. W. Stockton and George Secrest got into a quarrel about some trivial matter

which resulted in blows, Stockton using a cane and Secrest a large bowie knife. The difficulty look place in Taylors store, on the south side of the square.— Stockton was cut in some eight or ten places, and from the wounds inflicted died on Sunday morning about 11 o'clock. Secrest is somewhat injured from blows received upon the head with a cane, and although thought dangerous at the time, is now in a fair way to recover. How the difficulty arose we have heard several versions, and we presume the truth will not be known until brought out as evidence in court.— The occurrence is a shocking one, and we hope we may never be compelled to record another such, as happening in the county. Dr. Stockton leaves a wife and a large family of small children to mourn his untimely end."

The <Banner> also adds that a Coroner's Inquest was held, which "Brought in a verdict to the effect that Stockton came to his death from wounds received by a bowie knife from the hands of Secrest, and that Secrest is guilty of murder in the second degree." ~~~~~~~

Registration of Letters.

The last Congress passed a law to provide for the greater security of mails as a means of conveying valuable letters. After the 1st day of July next any person posting a letter, may have the same registered at the office of mailing, on paying a fee of five cents, and a receipt will be given.

The accounts of registered letters are kept entirely separate from the ordinary mail accounts. The Postmaster will make a separate bill for each registered letter or parcel of registered letters for the same office of delivery or distribution, and the letter bills of registered letters, instead of being enclosed in the same package with the letters, are to be sent in a separate envelope, sealed, and addressed to the postmaster, at the office of which the corresponding package of registered letters is sent.

At the office of receipt of such letters for distribution or delivery, the letters in the registered package are compared with the bills sent and a duplicate thereof made, on which is endorsed the word "correct," if it be so, or the error noted if there be one, and this duplicate is mailed direct, by return mail, to the post master at whoso office it was originally mailed; so that if anything is wrong it is soon known. The facts contained in the returned duplicate or receipt, are noted in the margin of the register of letters sent. All important discrepancies are to be immediately reported to the chief clerk of the Post Office Department, and if such discrepancy implies a robbery of the mail, such report will be made by telegraph if possible.

On the delivery of a registered letter at the office of delivery a receipt will be taken from ihe person authorized to receive it; which is to be carefully filed and preserved. ~~~~~~~

Aid and Comfort for the Chinese Rebels. A very interesting item of ru«pr has just gained partial circulation, apparently growing out of the eenernl knowledge of certain facts connected with a secret association of Chinese in this city, said to be the agents of the Chinese rebels, together. with suspicions engendered by the recent shipment to Canton of some seventy cases, purporting to contain the remains of deceased Chinamen. It is stated that the officers of the ship Sunny South, on board of which vessel the freight specified was shipped, were suspicious of the character of a portion of the shipment, were of several hundred pounds weight. Nothing of this suspicion was made public until after the vessel had sailed as it was feared that public discussion of the matter might lead to investigation, and possibly cause the vessel to be detained. It is asserted that through the agency in this city the rebels have been furnished with large supplies of Colt's pistols, and other munitions of wnrof American manufacture. The object of this association in conducting its operations with such profound secresy cannot be ascertained. There appears to be something connected with their movements which does not admit of publicity. Mr.

Cavalho, the Chinese interpreter of the Recorder's Court, his been offered a bribe of four thousand dollars, together with a per ceutar?e upon ccrtain commissions, to bind himself to the interests of the secret association—San Francisco Herald.

Cool Indeed.

Mr- Marshall, the lessee of the Walnut Street Theatre, Philadelphia, has recently introduced into that establishment an a pparatus for cooling and ven tilating it during warm weather. It coti' sists of a blower drawing in cold air from the street, refrigerating wheels and an ice box to cool it, with air tubes to properly diffuse it through the building. The fan case, refrigerating wheels, box. and ice reservoir are all connected together in one continuous wooden box the fan being at one end and the ice res ervoir at the other. The fan is four feet in diameter by three feet wide, and is driven by a steam engine at the rate of 300 revolutions to the minute. The cold air is distributed uniformly by

means of eight adjustable openings in horizontal tubes, and flows into the build ing at a temperature

TRUSTEES OFFICE, WAB. DT ERIE CAWAL,) TEBRE HAUTE, June 16, 1855. Whereas a contract was made with Win. K. Houston, of Clay county, on the 30th Sept., 1854, to cut down and clear off the timber then standing within the limits of the Birch creek Reservoir, in Clay county, and also all the shrubs, brush and small trees within the same, exception from such clenr.ng a belt or strip next to the embankment, which was reserved to protect the same from the waves, which work of cutting and clearng was to be fully finished on or before the first day of February. 1855 And, whereas the said Houston failed to finish the same within the time specified, and abandoned the work And, whereas the said reservoir is an indispensible feeder to the main line of the canal, without which navigition cannot be maintained, which navigation is now interrupted by the breach of said reservoir, causing great loss and damage to the publie.

And whereas Gen. Dodd| and Col. Nees, acting in behalf of the State authorities for the protecting of the said Reservoir and other works of the Canal, have represented to the said Board that the clearing off of the timber within the limits of said Reservoir would affect favorably the citizens of Clay county residing in the vicinity of said Reservoir, allay their fears, and cause them' to protect the said works against any further outrage or damage, and have intimated to the Board that the same be doqp as soon as practicable consistently with the interests of the State and the use and navigation of the canal And whereas the Trustees have received the proceedings of a meeting of the citizens of Clay county residing in the vicinity of said Reservoir held on the 24th June instant, of which Daniel W. Hays was

President, and Solomon Sharp, Secretary, in which such pledges as above are contained, and have also received a communication through Dr. E. C. Smith, and Judge Staggs acting as a committee on behalf of a meeting of the citizens of Perry township adjoining the said Reservoir, of the same tenor:

Ordered, that the timber remaining within the limits of said Reservoir, with the exception of the belt or strip reserved along the embankment for the protection of the same be cleared off as fast as the same can be done (without hazarding or impairing the navigation or use of the canal between Terre Haute and Evansville that the work be commenced without delay and prosecuted to completion as diligently as the circumstances .will permit.

Ordered that these resolutions be signed by the Trustees, and copies delivered to the said Gen. Dodd, and Col. Nees, and also tr the chairman of the meeting above allude

^Signed, CHARLES BUTLER, B. R. EDMONSON, THOS. DOWLING,

Trustees of the Wabash and Erie Ca

Independent Order of Ancient Kni hood. To Temperance men and Prohibitory Fru The above Order is now beginning to s| over every part of our land,

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We do not approve of the withdraw^ protest of the Indiana delegates, at Phi phia. They were in the National Co' tion, to represent our State, and forth pie reason that they could not have thing their own way, must needs a' the convention and protest against i" Such a coarse is disorganising.and to the'party. We think it was the stick to the convention to the la against such propositions as Unapprove and then, opon final ad they shoo Id bave laid a report of ceedings before the people who resented, and ask their judgeme acta and opinions. Instead of course, the delegates have folio eopatbs' of old tne parties and to the new party the'very issof which occasioned tin

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Vincennes Gazette.

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eastern States, and its influence as a itor organization, is more powerful.

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vorable circumstances and the hope cpore rapidly extending the power and it£er?(je of this Order, it has been deemed al^le to change the fee for CHARTER, RITUjf»&C-» for new Encampments, from whiclf81"6^fore had been ten to six dollars. Pe

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men prince of darknesstrack marks the world WL sweetest music is the wai/tI,e widow and

at the grave. The homes of was the tomb of in 'ancienttime.'

orphan whose work ends! nor is completed in eterr our fellow-men are to ui our Saviour to our brotj They sought to rescue/ "Ul

the hands of tl/^k-WE stnve to deliver our homes, from the dominion dead men's bones. .....

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GRAVER, D. P. St. Louis, Mo. per in the Western give the above a pub-

P. S. Every] States, is reques( li cation.

beauty of holy life conuent and effective perhich one human being

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beaming through the life of a lovor friend, is more effectual to •en such as to stand in virtue's woys up those that arc bowed, than preand, entreaty or warning. Chriself, I believe, owes by far the rt of its moral power, not to the or parables of Christ, but to his r. The beauty of that holiness enshrined in the four brief biograthe Man of Nazareth, has done nd will do more, to regenerate the and bring it to everlasting righteoushan all other agencies put together.— done more to spread his religion in orld than all that has ever been preachwritten,on the evidences of Christian-j-'J r4

Emancipation by a Virginia Court.

8 "g.^Jf /rhe Richmond Enquirer of the 12th

following account of a

ery interesting caso which has been ecided in the Botetourt circuit court. Eliza Crawford and five children, colored, sueing for their freedom. The case was decided in favor of the plantiflfs the evidence being full Bnd complete that the chief plaintiff, Eliza, was born of a whito woman of Georgia. She is now about 35 years of age, ond has been in slavery between fifieen and twenty years. Her appearance indicates that her father was a mixture of African and Indian. She is now the mother of six children all of whom were plaintiffs, except the eldest, who never belonged to 'defendant, and who, it is said, will now be aet at liberty without resistance.— There was no evidence, however, to show that the defendant was in any way privy to, or accountable for the injustice done to ih» plaint!^®•

Law-

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of Hon 4 renoe. BOSTON, June 27.

The Hon. Abbot Lawrence is danger ously ill, and is not expected to recov

The weather is clear and warm.— The river is falling with nine feet two inches water in the channel^ "J Dismissed.

T"' |p* WASHINGTONT June 27^ Mr. Wilson, the Commissioner of the Lend Office, received his dismissal this afternoon^ direct from the President. He left the office immediately. It is thought Wilson Shannon will be his successor

British Officials in Trouble. NEW YORK, June 26. A warrant has been issued for the arrest of Chas. H. Sianly, the Secretary of the British Consul, for enlisting troops for the army in the Crimea. He was arrested this afternoon and gave bail^i

Terrible Smash Up on a RniUvpy—Nar row Escape of the Passengers. MILTON, N. J. June 26*.

The rains during the last few days caused a large land slide about three miles above this place, and the railway track in one place was covered with earth to the depth of six feet. The train from Niogara yesterday, with obout twenty passengers, ran into the eorih leaped over the pile, performing plete somerset, coming down on the eels at the other side, and there fell 0 the cunal. The engineer, fireman, one passenger, were carried with ihe comoiive, ond strange to say escaped ninjured. The baggage car was broen to pieces, and the baggage master had one of his hands badly smashed.

The passenger car was jammed in against the baggage car and the platform was broken, but with the exception of a few bruises, the passengers escaped.— Fortunately the coupling attaching the cars to the locomotive broke, and but for this, all would have gone into the canal, and but 1'ew could have escoped, as the water is very deep.

New York Market. NEW YORK. June 27.

The common grades of Flour are dull ond lower, i.ui the better qualities are firmer the sales comprise 7.000 brls, at f8,62@9$5 for Ohio and $I0.00@ 10,75 for Southern. Wheat is dull. Corn is lower, with sales of 75,000 bush ot 97@ ,00 for mixed. Pork is firm, with an upward tendency sales of 1,800 brls ut $19,50 for New Mess. There is a good demand for Beef, and the mnrkei Is buoyani soles of 750 brls nt $16 for repacked Chicago. Lard is higher, with sales of barrel at 10^(5)1 lc, and keg at 12@12|c. Whisky is lower, and irregular sales of 300 brls Ohio ut 37^@38c. There is a moderate demand for Groceries, at previous rates. Money coniinties easy. Stocks are steady: Indiana Fives, 85£ Tennessee Fives, 99 Now Y"ork Central, 101^ Euie, 53£ Reading 93 and Cleveland, Columbus, and Cincinnati, 107^

RAILROAD ACCIDENT.—A distressing accident occurred at Madison on yesterday morning, which resulted in the death of two of the employees of the Madison and Indianapolis Railroad Company. We learn the particulars were nearly as follows:

The heavy engine, <Indiana>, took a train of freight cars down the plane early in the morning, and was standing upon the track near the river. The engine No. 14, after giving time for the Indiana to get out of the way, also started down the plane, without any cars attached, having on board Samuel Idler, Engineer, Thomas Bizette, Fireman, and E. J. Robinson, a Clerk of the Company.— The track being wet, the wheels slipped and were soon beyond the control of the brakes. The engine went down the plane with fearful velocity, and when within a hundred yards of the Indiana the engineer and fireman leaped to the ground. The engineer struck against a switch signal and was instantly killed; the fireman struck the ground, and died instantly. Mr. Robinson clung to the engine, and was awfully bruised, but was living when Mr. John Mancourt, the Conductor left Madison. The engines and freight cars were battered to pieces by the concussion. All the sufferers leave families, who deeply deserve the sympathies of the public, and who will not fail to be remembered by the officers of the Company.—<State Journal>. ~~~~~~~

MELASCHOLY AFFANT.—A TEACHER MURDERED BY A BOY.—We learn from a gentleman who was an eye-witness, the following particulars of a most horrible and tragical affair that occurred at Pontotoc, Miss., on Monday last it appears that Mr. Brown, the principal of the Male Academy at Pontotoc, nas punished one of his pupils about a week since. A brother of the boy that was whipped, by the name of Wray, made threats against Mr. Brown for the aforesaid punishment, to which but little attention was paid. On Monday young Wray, a youth some 17 or 18 years old, took a position where Sir. Brown would pass on his way home from school and waited until he came along, when Wray attacked him.

The two clinched, Brown only acting in self-defence, and those who saw it thought it only to be a scuffle between them, until they saw B.run a few yards, his hands upon his abdomen, and fell down lifeless. While they were clinched Wray had inflicted two wounds upon Brown with a bowie knife which killed him almost instantly. The yoonz man was arrested at once. Mr. Brown was a man much respected, and leaves a young widow to whom he had been married but a few months, to mourn hia early and untimely end. This ia one of the most horrible, cold-blooded murder* we have noticed in eo'me time, and is a deeper outrage than the Matt Ward cme.r—Memphit Whig.

CURIOUS TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRoit.-Prof. Trench, in his latest work on the English language, points out a curious typo* graphical error in the 24th verse in the 23d chapter of Matthew. The words 'which strain ot a gnat and swallow a camel,* the professor thinks coiuaVu a misprint, which having been passed over in the edition of 1611, has held its ground ever since. The translators in* tended to say •which strain out a gnat and swallow a camel,' that being the correct rendering of the original, as ap*. pears in Tynsdale's and Cranmer's translations, both of which have it, 'strained out.' It was the Qustom of the stricter

Jews to strain their wine, vinegar, and/ other portables, through linen or gauze, lest unawares they should drink down some little unclean inject as a gnat, and thus transgress the Levitical Law. It. was to this custom the Saviour alluded, intending to say that the Scribes and Pharisees, while they strain out a gnat from their drink, would yet swallow a camel at & gulp.j*

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NEW LINE TO CHICAGO!

Through Passenger Train DailyK

[SUNDA YS EXCEPTED.] '-h

AFTER

Monday July 2, the Passenger Trairt will leave Terre Haute at 7 o'clock A. and arrive at the crossing of the Chicago branch at 10 o'clock A. M-, connecting with the train of? the Illinois

Central Road, direct to Chicago by 6-.

o'clock P. M. RETURNING—LeavescrossingofChicago Branch on arrival of Illinois Central trfyn, at 3,45 and reaches Terre Hnuteat 6-45 P. M.

ID" Freight Trains leave daily. {CrFreijHit

W'U

not be received at ihe Depot

for shipment after 5, o'clock P. M. L. R. SARGENT, Sup't. Juno 30, 1855 45-tf *:.

PUBLIC SALE

At Teutopolis, Effingham Co., 111.

rpHE undersigned will sell at his residence ort JL the 17th day of July, 1855, a building intended for a Brewery or a Distillery with Brick See Lot, Garden, Sic.

Also a House. Lot, and Garden Calculated for a Store, or Tavern, with 6 rooms, Kitchen, &c.< to the highest bidder, infotmation given in writing or personally hy Doct. EJLang, Teutopolis,' Effinahnm Co.. Ills.

N.U.—No Liquor Law in Illinois. Fole-'.s Frcund, German paper, Cincinnati, pleaso copy the above in weekly three weeks and semi copy each week to advertiser, and also forward bill to this office.

June 30, 1855-45 3t

John P. Usher and "J C.Y.Patterson Attachment vs. 1 Before L. Duy, J. P.

James Mossman. Y. PATTERSON having filed in my oiiicd his affidavit setting forth that ihosaid def«nJ dan ia indebted to tint said plaintiff-, and that ho is a non-resid nt of the State cf Indiana. And caused a writ of attachment to be issued by infl against the goods and chatties credits and ullbcta ot said defendant, and also summons of garnishfo to Horace 15. Smith. Now therefore said d.fendant is hereby notified to be and appear before me Lambert Duy, Justicu of the Peace, at niy oilice in Terre Haute, on the 23d day oi July, J855, at 10 o'clock A. ftl., otherwise said proceedings in attachment will be determined in his absence.

LAM PERT DUY, J. P.

June 30, J855-45-3I. Printers fee $2,00.

LIVER COMPLAINT

Of five years standing cured by n.- ing tho original and only ge.iuine Liver I'ills, prepared by K. E. Sellers.

Fearing, Washington Co 0., Sept, 1, 51. Mr. R. E. Sellern: Dear Sir:— It is with pleasure that lean recomniEnd your Liver Pills which havo effected wonders wherever used in our part of tho country. Mony of my neighbors havo used thern, and found ihem of the greatest utility in billiiuts afll ctions, sick headache, See. As for myself 1 can say there never has been a medicine that has done so much good- 1 huve been ufllict ed with the Liver Complaint for nearly 5 years, and have tried various remedies, bnt in vnin at last 1 heard of your Liver Pills which have effected tho most happy rutulls, and 1 may say, without exngeration, that 1 am now perfectly cured. I therefore recommend ihem to all who are afli od with dis.a es the I.ver-

Your grateful friend, J. SMITH. TO THE PUBLIC.

The original, only true and genuino Liver Pilta are prepared by R. E. Sellers, and have his name in black wax upon the lid of each box and his signature oh the outside wrapper—all others aro counterfeits orbnse impositions.

R. E. SELLERS & Co., Proprietors'. Pittsburgh, Pa, FOR SALE BY

all the Druggisls of Terre Haute, Ind and bjr Druggists and Medicine dealers generally. June 30. 1855.— 38-lm

Very Important Information.

Dr. Joitvs, one of tho most celebrated Physicians in New York, writes as follows-. DN. CURTIS—Dear Sir:—Having witnessed tho excellent effects of your HYQKAHOR INHALINU HYOEAX VAPOR AND CHERRY SYRUP, in a cas« of chronic Bronchitis, and being much in favor of counter-irritation in affections of the throat, bronchial tubes and lungs, I can therefore cheer fully recommend your Medicated Apparatus aa being the most convenient and effectual modo of applying anything of the kind I have ever seen. No doubt thousands of persons may be relieved, and mnny cured, by using your remedies.

You are at liberty to use this in any way yoU may thinP proper. Respectfully, yours, &.c. C. JUNKS, M. D.

No. 600 Houston street, New Yo:k.

PROF. S. CENTER writes us as follows: GEMIFMEN,—-1 have recently had occasion to test your Cherry Syrup and Hygean Vapor in a case of chronic sore throat, that had refused t» vield to other forms of treatment, and the result lias satisfied me, that, whatever may be tho compositicn of your preparation, it is no imposition, but an excellent remedy. 1 wish, for the sake of the afflicted, thai it might be brought within tho reach cf all.

ROT Doctor CIIEEVER writes NEW YORK, Nov. 15, 1854. DEAR'SIR:—I think highly of Dr. Curtis'S Hygeana, as a remedy in diseases of the throat and lungs. Having had some opportunity to test its efficacy. 1 am convinced that it is a most excel' lent medicinc, both the Syrup and the inhaling ap plication to the chrst.

The Hygeana is for sale at Terre Haute by CON DIT &HUNLEY. See advertisement in another column headecl Medicated Inhalation.

Feb. 24, 1855-27 3m

DR- GUYSOTT S IMPROVED EXTRACT OF YELLOW DOCK AND SARSAPAR1LLA is a sure remedy for Hereditary Taint.

Thousands of individuals are curcd with grievous complaints which they inherit from their parents. The use of the Yellow Dock and Sarsaparilla will prevent all this and save a vast amount of misery, and many valuable lives, for it thoroughly expels from tne system the latent taint, which is the seed of disease, and so takeoff the curse by which ihe sins or misfortune of the parents are so often visited upon the innocent of&pring.

Parents owe it to their children to guard them against the effects of maladies that may be communicated by descect, and children of parents that have at any time been affected with '-'on-, sumption, Scrofula or Syphilis, owe it to theift-. selves to take precaution against the disease being revived in them. Guysott's Extract of Yellow Dock and Sarsaparilla is a sure antidot in such cases. 8^-See advertisement. uMi

October28,1854—lm.

AYER'S CHERRY PECTORAL.—We believe this to be an excellent preparation, and shall therefore not hesitate to recommend it to our readers. It has been tested in numerous instances in this city and in several which have come under our oWn observation, it has accomplished what other popular medicines and tome of our most skilful physicians had tailed to accomplish—a perfect cure, in cases of (apparently) confirmed con-, sumption. It ia the only medicine.for this dis»ease

which we can heartily recommend.—^Tern-* pcrance Advocate, Prov. ,.t...:|,